# Jose Antonio Merino

Managing Director, Chile

## Career chronology

- **Current role; exact role start is not established: Marimaca Copper** — Managing Director, Chile. [Jose Antonio Merino management page](<https://marimaca.com/jose-antonio-merino/>) (Jose Antonio Merino biography)

## Education and qualifications

### Reported education and credentials [merino_education]

Undated · issuer reported · low materiality

An Omni issuer announcement reports a civil engineering degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. The listed degrees and memberships have not been independently verified.

**Relevance:** Relevant to the individual’s stated role.

[Director appointment and Merino biography](<https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/ODM/02570164.pdf>) (page 1 biography)

## Personal achievements

### Relevant reported experience [merino_career]

Career to October 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

The issuer reports prior business-development and M&amp;A leadership at SQM and continued Chilean operating and permitting responsibilities.

**Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. The role history is issuer-reported; individual contribution and employment dates are not fully independently established.

**Relevance:** Relevant to the present mining, financing, legal or project role.

[Jose Antonio Merino management page](<https://marimaca.com/jose-antonio-merino/>) (Jose Antonio Merino biography)

## Contributions and company outcomes

### Chile project environmental approval [merino_permit]

August–November 2025 · documented · medium materiality

Chile’s environmental service named Merino as the project company’s legal representative in its August 2025 clarification request. Marimaca announced the project environmental approval in November 2025, while noting additional sectoral permits were still required.

**Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. His formal representative role is evidenced; project approval reflects work by a wider team and authorities.

**Relevance:** Relevant to Chilean project permitting.

[Environmental regulator request for clarification](<https://firma.sea.gob.cl/publicaciones/2025/08/29/1756478419_2166185738>) (page 1, legal representative and clarification request); [Marimaca announces receipt of environmental approval](<https://marimaca.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/25-11-11-Marimaca-Announces-Receipt-of-Environmental-Approval.pdf>) (page 1)

## Suitability for the current role

### Role-fit assessment [merino_fit]

October 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

The reported background is relevant to managing director, chile, subject to the substantial limits of the available screening.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Analyst judgment based on the cited roles; not a finding about character.

**Relevance:** Shows the evidence and uncertainty behind the team assessment.

[Jose Antonio Merino management page](<https://marimaca.com/jose-antonio-merino/>) (Jose Antonio Merino biography)

## Evidence gaps

- Independent verification of education, memberships and dates is incomplete.

- Full previous-employer outcomes and person-specific public court, regulatory, safety and environmental records have not been exhaustively reviewed.